ldquo;In the 1920s O G S Crawford invented aerial archaeology, one of many services this eccentric Marxist misanthrope performed for the study of antiquity.rdquo;

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Bloody Old Britain: O G S Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life

By Kitty Hauser

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ldquo;Future archaeologists will perhaps excavate the ruined factories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when the radiation effects of Atom bombs have died away.rdquo;

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A dermatologist linked to the investigation into Michael Jackson's death denied giving the star dangerous drugs on Wednesday as mystery shrouded the King of Pop's final resting place.
As the dust settled on an emotion-filled Los Angeles memorial watched by up to one billion fans worldwide according to some estimates, attention returned Wednesday to the role of drugs in Jackson's tragic demise.
Investigators are reportedly looking into five doctors who treated the superstar in the past and have zeroed in on a powerful sedative -- Diprivan -- discovered at Jackson's rented mansion after his death.
Diprivan is commonly used to induce unconsciousness in hospital patients ahead of major surgery and experts say it should only be administered by a trained anesthesiologist.
Jackson's long-time dermatologist Arnold Klein on Wednesday denied he was the source of the drugs found but said he had often been concerned other medical professionals were supplying the singer with medications.
"I didn't give him this crap that they're talking about," he told ABC television's Good Morning America. "How am I going to prescribe Diprivan when I don't understand how to use it?"
Klein, who said he treated Jackson three days before his mysterious death on June 25, believes that any doctor found to have supplied the star with drugs should be prosecuted for manslaughter.
"I say that anyone who makes someone an addict or gives a person potentially dangerous substances directly to them to use, like propofol is a criminal," Klein said, referring to the generic name for Diprivan.
"It becomes nothing more than a manslaughter, or something worse than that."
Klein revealed that Jackson appeared to be in good health a few days before his death. "He was not in terrible pain when I saw him. He danced in the office. He was very happy and dancing," he said.
"I saw nothing at that point in time that would make me worry whatsoever but I always was concerned about him because I always worried about other doctors," Klein said.
"Here's the problem with Michael: no matter what he wanted, someone would give it to him," added Klein, saying he was not one of the five physicians reportedly under scrutiny by investigators.
"I'm not one of the five doctors. I've not been examined by anyone, I've not been contacted by police in Los Angeles," he said.
Unidentified sources close to the investigation told CNN and ABC Wednesday that Jackson's body had been riddled with needle marks and collapsed veins consistent with intravenous use of a drug like Diprivan.
The Los Angeles coroner's office has said no final cause of death will be revealed until results of exhaustive toxicology tests are confirmed in the next four weeks. A death certificate released Tuesday stated the cause of Jackson's demise had been "deferred."
A gold-plated coffin bearing Jackson's body took center stage at a star-studded but somber send-off at the Staples Center on Tuesday.
However the whereabouts of Jackson's body remained a closely guarded secret on Wednesday, uncertainty likely to fuel speculation that the singer's remains may yet end up at his beloved Neverland Ranch northwest of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times reported on its website the body was in safekeeping and no final decision had been made about a time or place for burial.
Jackson's daughter Paris, 11, grabbed international attention with her heartbreaking comments at her father's memorial on Tuesday.
"Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just wanted to say I love him so much," Paris said before dissolving into tears and being comforted by Jackson's family.
Television ratings released by media group Nielsen Wednesday revealed 31.1 million Americans tuned in for the memorial, making it the third-most watched funeral in US history.
Only the funerals of former President Ronald Reagan in 2004, seen by 35 million and Princess Diana in 1997, (33.2 million) attracted higher numbers.
Jackson sold more than 750 million albums during a four-decade career that was tainted by repeated allegations of child abuse, his startling physical transformation and his eccentric behavior.

খুব শিগগীর প্রজেক্টের পাতাটার চারদিকে একটু চোখবুলিয়ে নিন...নতুন কিছু দেখছেন না? বাঁ-দিকে পাতার খানিকটা নিচে জল্পাই রঙের বাক্সটাতে টিগ-বাংলার টুইটার ফীড আসছে! আমরা এখন টুইটারে-ও। প্রতিদিনের খবরাখবর সরবরাহ করবে টুইটার। আপনি যদি দেখতে চান আমরা কতদুর এগিয়েছি, প্রজেক্ট পেজটা একবার ঘুরে যেতে পারেন...একঝলকে সারা দিনের গরমাগরম খবর।
আমাদের ফলো করুন TIG_Bengali নামে।

কিম্বা অনুবাদক-রা আপনাদের কাজের আপডেট টুইট করতে থাকুন। যেমন আমাদের টিমের আনোয়ার হয়ত লিখবে" ৫৪৪ টা ফ্রেজ একবারে করে ফেললাম!!!!...Translation is Addictive" । বলতে গেলে টুইটার ফীডগুলো ট্রান্সলেশন প্ল্যাটফর্মের দৈনন্দিন কাজকর্মের সঙ্গে আপনাদের একটা যোগসূত্র স্থাপন করবে...অনেকেই জিজ্ঞাসা করেন, কেমন চলছে, কদ্দুর এগোলো...এবার আর উত্তরের অপেক্ষা করতে হবেনা!

এবার দুটি আভ্যন্তরীন ঘোষনা -
>টিগ_বাংলা দলের থেকে টুইটার ফীড যারা দিতে চান তারা গ্রুপে ইমেল করুন, তাদের পাসোয়ার্ড জানানো হবে।

>দ্বিতীয়ত, প্রজেক্ট-পাতার নতুন আরেকটি সঙ্কলন হল 'আলাপ'...এই থ্রেডটি সৃষ্টি করা হয়েছে, আমাদের পরিচয় ও আদানপ্রদান আরেকটু বাড়ানোর জন্য। প্রজেক্টের সাথে যুক্ত যে কেউই এখানে পোস্ট করতে পারেন।

কি বলেন?

~দেবশ্রী

The prophetic reputation of Pastor TB Joshua attained new heights with the recent revelation that he foretold the sudden death of the iconic pop legend, Michael Jackson…

Shock and sympathy are still reverberating around the world since the news broke on Thursday 25th June that Michael Jackson, the undisputed 'King Of Pop' had died suddenly after collapsing in his L.A apartment. However, his death had been foretold months earlier by a popular Nigerian Prophet, TB Joshua.

In January this year, Joshua prophesied during one of his famous Sunday services, broadcast live on Emmanuel TV: “I'm seeing a great star whom the world is shouting, “Hey, hey, hey!” In his own area, he's famous – he's known everywhere. He is great – too great… I see something will begin to happen to that star and that may likely end in him packing his load and going on the journey of no return…”

A month later, he clarified that the person concerned was not from his local environ and was 'too young to leave your midst' – enjoining the congregants and viewers worldwide to pray earnestly for this 'great star'.

Although some may view his words as too generic to be accredited to the legendary entertainer, the revelation of Tee Mac Omatshola Iseli on Sunday 28th June 2009, the famous flautist, business associate of Marlon Jackson and close friend of the Jackson family, put asunder such doubts. Joshua knew clearly who he was referring to.

In a sober atmosphere, Tee Mac spoke in front of a live television audience on Emmanuel TV, testifying that Prophet TB Joshua had told him to warn Michael Jackson of an impending health disaster, and invite him to visit Nigeria for healing.

“The man of God (TB Joshua) called me to his office and said to me, 'Please, tell your friend Marlon to bring Michael here to Nigeria. Michael needs healing; he needs deliverance.' I told the man of God that Michael Jackson just went for a medical check up because he is going to have about 50 concerts soon. But the man of God said to me, 'Send Michael here – he needs healing.' ”

When the tragic news broke, “what immediately came to my mind was that the man of God told me something's going to happen,” Tee Mac reminisced. Clearly remorseful, he lamented that if he had taken the message more seriously and acted with more insistence, “maybe Michael Jackson would still be alive today…”

Utilising the occasion to reflect on life, TB Joshua asked the audience in a heartfelt message: “If today were your last day on earth, what would people remember you for? What would generations yet unborn read about you?' He encouraged the people to live each day as if it were their least, and avoid the burden of unnecessary worry and anxiety. “Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross,” he remarked.

As well as speaking on major world events, Joshua regularly prophesies to individuals that throng his flourishing church in Lagos, with uncanny accuracy. His recent prophecies include the death of the former South Korean president, the Feb 13 plane crash in New York and the release of Ingrid Betancourt from the Colombian jungle last year.

His ministry is attracting a growing fanatical following, particularly across Africa, and many African leaders such as John Evans Atta Mills of Ghana regularly frequent his church for spiritual support and guidance.

Source: Africa News

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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called on people displaced by fighting against the Taliban in the north-west of the country to go home.

He said that the first phase of a four-part programme to return them would begin on 13 July.

It is the first time the PM has made such a call since the army offensive against the Taliban began in April.

The army, meanwhile, says that its operation in Malakand has entered its final phase.

Mr Gilani said that militants had already been "cleared" from Swat, Buner and part of Upper Dir.

Several hundred families from those areas have already begun to return to their homes.

Developed and developing nations have agreed that global temperatures should not rise more than 2C above 1900 levels, a G8 summit declaration says.

That is the level above which, the UN says, the Earth's climate system would become dangerously unstable.

But the industrialised G8 nations have so far failed to persuade developing countries to accept targets for reducing emissions by 50% by 2050.

On Wednesday the G8 agreed to 80% cuts by the same date.

Earlier UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the G8 had not done enough and should also set 2020 targets.

He said that while the G8 agreement reached on Wednesday was welcome its leaders also needed to establish a strong and ambitious mid-term target for emissions cuts.

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I really don't know what to say. When I read about Victoria Jackson's incoherent rant this afternoon, I just shook my head. I have heard this self-proclaimed conservative spew her hate and rhetoric towards Obama and his administration before. What bothers me most is that she actually makes people like Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, and Palin look tame and intelligent.

I would like to address several of the key points in her rant:

Abortion -- It is quite obvious that Miss Jackson is Pro-Life. She comments that Obama is killing babies. It does not matter your stance on abortion. Obama does not kill babies, and the issue of abortion is not even within his purview. The issue was decided by the Supreme Court in 1973. Regardless of the merits of the arguments, Roe v. Wade set the law of the land, and unless the ruling is challenged, accepted and overturned, the President has absolutely no standing to contest or oppose established case law like this. People on both sides of the issue have worked strenuously since 1973 to fight this ruling, Pro-life advocates to overturn it, and Pro-Choice advocates to uphold it. That the issue has not been overturned in this time is telling.

Health Care -- This is obviously the current hot-button issue for much of America. There are a great number of things being tossed back and forth in this debate, several are good, many more are bad - from both sides. There is an agreement that something needs to be done with our health care system. From there, the sides diverge greatly. While I agree with her contention that customer service, especially among government employees, is lacking in our society, I do not see how this applies to the argument. The state of governmental customer service (or lack thereof) has been as such for many, many years, and cannot be attributed to the Obama administration in any way.

On the actual issue, nobody (of consequence) is suggesting socialized medicine. To remake our current system into a fully public system is likely impossible. Currently, millions are without insurance, the industry has not held up their responsibility of quality patient care, and control of the system is relegated to a few powerful organizations. We need a change, and since the industry has proven throughout history to be incapable of bringing the kind of change needed, and with the interests of the patient in mind, it falls to the government. Unfortunately, nobody has provided a viable alternative to this. The Obama administration has put forth a plan to make a public option available for people, like me, who cannot obtain private coverage nor have an employer-sponsored plan. How is this socialized medicine?

I completely lose her when she combines these two points to assert that Obama would be killing senior citizens. First, it is only Congress that has the authority to pass legislation, which would be necessary to affect the change necessary to overhaul our health care system. Sure, Obama has to sign it, and he can play cheerleader, but it is ultimately up to Congress. Even without this fact, her point falls down easily. With it, it is completely blown out of the water.

By the way, she hints that she may be asking for Social Security and/or Medicare as she ages. If she is so set in her conservative ways, how can she fathom taking advantage of the very social programs she despises?

Obama v. Hitler -- This is where she starts orbiting Pluto. Even if you believe the argument that Obama is a socialist (which he is not), this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. How can any intelligent person make a connection between Barack Obama, a moderate, liberal President of a capitalist, representative democracy, and Adolph Hitler, with his vision of a totalitarian, autocratic, single party, national socialist dictatorship realized in Nazi Germany? I really don't know what else to say. Hitler was ultra-conservative, and dedicated his life to the "purification" of the human race, while Obama just wants people to be able to make a decent living, have access to education and healthcare, and to generally just get along. Where is the connection?

Evil Governments -- I had to laugh at this one for a few reasons. First, a system with a King is called a Monarchy, and is not inherently evil. As with any authoritarian form of government, it is prone to corruption by power-hungry individuals, but is not itself evil. The same thing applies to Oligarchies.

Secondly, fascism is not a form of government, but a political ideology frequently found in authoritarian governments.

Finally, Socialism and Communism are socioeconomic structures and can be found in conjunction with any of a number of governmental models. If we take this argument and restructure it to fit the assumed meaning, authoritarian governments are evil, as are the socialist and communist models of economic theory. Without debating the merits of these, I think we can agree that America is not an authoritarian form of government, nor is it a socialist or communist state. For all its warts, our system is undeniably a representative democracy and adheres to capitalistic economic philosophy.

Note: Wikipedia, while not always perfect, can be a wonderful tool for helping to understand concepts like forms of government, socioeconomic schools of thought, and political ideologies.

She then rambles on about an encounter she had with a small business owner. She asserts that the "facts" she was informing the shop staff about caused them to glaze over, apparently from the realization of just how screwed we all are under Obama. I suggest that the real reason for the glazed look was their polite way of dealing with a crazed person in their store.

With her rant, Miss Jackson reminds me of a quote, attributed to Abraham Lincoln: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." Please, somebody on the conservative side, educate this woman or prevent her from speaking out. She is not helping your cause.

On Friday, leaders at the G8 summit in Italy take on the global food challenge - how to curb hunger in a world where there are a billion hungry people, more than ever before.

In reading some of the coverage leading up to the event, I saw a troubling lack of understanding about the role providing nutritious food to the hungry plays as an investment in our future. Food assistance is an investment: An investment in stability and world peace. Surely you remember the food riots of 2008 - they were not that long ago. And look at Pakistan now. The food streaming into millions of people who have fled their homes is pivotal in cooling a troubled region.

An investment in the next generation of global citizens. Food builds both physical capacity - strong bodies that resist disease--and mental capacity, starting from the youngest age. It seems that with every day we get another piece of information linking nutrition and brainpower--with some studies attributing up to 35 points of IQ to nutrition that is or is not received between the fetal stage and age two.

The inside skinny is that the communiqué (that's the official word for the official statement that the elite groups issues at the conclusion of its annual meeting) will be dominated by a commitment to long-term agricultural production - with an eye toward producing more food for the planet.

I understand the desire to move to something new. We've been providing food assistance to a hungry world for four decades now and there are still more hungry people than there should be.

Investment in agricultural production is critical and at WFP, we're 150% behind that approach. As the population grows, the world will need more food. But make no mistake: More is not enough.

The world could triple food production tomorrow and not put much of a dent in the number of children who go to bed hungry each night. That's because the vast majority of hunger in the world today isn't about supply, it's about access. Food is available but, often for economic reasons, it's out of reach.

So as leaders talk in Aquila, we thank them for investing in agriculture even as we plead with them not to forget those without food today.

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